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Handling Email Overload in Congress
DedHerring writes "A piece from Roll Call, a newspaper on the hill, that describes how Congressional offices are working to identify which of the many bulk emails received are actually from constituents of their district. Worth a read to know if the click-through online petition you participate in is ever going to be considered by the recipient legislator. Confirms many posts in Slashdot on this topic."
...especially in the offices of our more, erm, elderly congressmen. How do you determine which messages are spam and which messages are Orrin Hatch's real communications about herbal viagra and colon cleansing? ;)
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Please stop posting in these public forums.
Here are a few simple guidelines to figure out whether it's bulk mail or not, and what to do with it:
1. Is it a Viagra ad? If it's a Viagra ad, you might want to keep it (you're getting old...), but it's not in your jurisdiction.
2. Is it an add to smuggle several million dollars out of some estranged third-world country, and all they need is your bank number? If it is, you might want to keep it (you know, "soft" money...), but it's not in your jurisdiction.
3. Is it an ad for special non-accredited diplomas? If it is an ad for diplomas, you might want to forward it to Bush twenty-or-so times in the hopes that it will somehow make him intelligent.
4. Is it a porn ad? If it is, remember that it's not spam if you request it.
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>>Maybe there should be a web page at http://www.house.gov/ that would let you use this system, then you mom-and-pop AOL users can get "equal time".
Do we really want "mom-and-pop AOL users" to be able to email our politicians?
Dear Sentor:
Pleas right sum legislcion to maek internet cheeper. Thank yuo.
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"Just trying to get you to focus on the issues, M. Antoinette".
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...In other, unrelated, news, The MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey has started a new campaign which requires all pornographic material destined for minors to be rerouted to, oddly enough, his mail address for further review.